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A man's character may be learned from the adjectiveswhich he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who
can't read.Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is a crank until the ideasucceeds.
Mark Twain
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square holeright away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.Mark Twain
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, itdoesn't matter.
Mark Twain
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All generalizations are false, including this one.Mark Twain
All right, then, I'll go to hell.Mark Twain
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the successis sure.
Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonishthe rest.
Mark Twain
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel inwhich it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain
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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.Mark Twain
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.Mark Twain
As an example to others, and not that I care formoderation myself, it has always been my rule never tosmoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking
when awake.Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of amisprint.
Mark Twain
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.Mark Twain
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EDUCATION
An educated person is one who has learned thatinformation almost always turns out to be at best
incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious,
mendacious - just dead wrong.Russell Baker
An education isn't how much you have committed tomemory, or even how much you know. It's being able to
differentiate between what you know and what you don't.Anatole France
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standingarmy.
Edward Everett
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Education is a progressive discovery of our ownignorance.Will Durant
Education is a social process. Education is growth.
Education is, not a preparation for life; education is lifeitself.
John Dewey
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to rememberfrom time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can
be taught.Oscar Wilde
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge inadversity. Aristotle
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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn'tknow.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a
fire.William Butler Yeats
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes fromone generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything withoutlosing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door offreedom.
George Washington Carver
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
Education is what survives when what has been learnedhas been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
Education, That which discloses to the wise and disguisesfrom the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Education... has produced a vast population able to readbut unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one.
Malcolm Forbes
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths
pure theatre.Gail Godwin
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.Victor Hug